Michael Bourne News

The 54 Below WBGO Jazz Series will feature weekly Tuesday evening shows by jazz artists curated by the famed veteran Jazz programmer, Todd Barkan. Just around the corner from Swing Street, these seasoned jazz performers come to Broadway's Nightclub to play and sing the night away in grand style. The series is sponsored by the WBGO, the country's premier jazz radio station, promising a truly classic only-in-New York experience.

In 1942, a teenage Sarah Vaughan won the Apollo Theater's amateur singing competition in a performance that was a launching pad for a career that transformed one of America's original art forms and elevated the craft of jazz vocal music. Seventy years later, Vaughan's legacy continues to resonate and will be celebrated with the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, part of the TD James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival at NJPAC and at venues around Vaughan's hometown of Newark, N.J.

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org.

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org. The entire interview will be available after 8:00 pm at wbgo.org/news/journal. Michael Bourne has been a New York theatre critic going on 30 years,. He is a member of the Outer Critics Circle. Mr. Bourne is the arts critic-at-large for the WBGO Journal, as well as the everyday afternoon 'drive jock' (2:00 -6:30 PM) on WBGO (the jazz station) and also the Sunday (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM) host of 'Singers Unlimited' for 25 years.

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org.

Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org. The entire interview will be available after 8:00 pm at wbgo.org/news/journal. Michael Bourne has been a New York theatre critic going on 30 years,. He is a member of the Outer Critics Circle. Mr. Bourne is the arts critic-at-large for the WBGO Journal, as well as the everyday afternoon 'drive jock' (2:00 -6:30 PM) on WBGO (the jazz station) and also the Sunday (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM) host of 'Singers Unlimited' for 25 years.

Tickets are on sale now for the North American premiere of 'Edward Scissorhands,' the enchanting, tender, and witty theatrical sensation from the mind of Michael Bourne, at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre Nov. 11 - Dec. 10.

Six hours of live coverage of Broadway's biggest night - the 60th annual Tony Awards - will be available exclusively on Sunday, June 11th from 6 PM to midnight ET on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best, channel 77

Christina Applegate, Ben Vereen, Marin Mazzie and Douglas Sills will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best 77 for the week of Sept. 19th

The Phantom of the Opera's Jeff Keller and George Lee Andrews, as well as Susan Stroman, John Kander and Barry Manilow will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best 77 for the week of September 12th

The career of Broadway legend Bernadette Peters will be toasted on the week of September 5th on Sirius Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best 77; the star will also be interviewed

Brad Oscar, Harvey Fierstein and a two radio plays by the Coen Brothers and Charlie Kaufman will be featured on this week's Broadway's Best 77 on Sirius Satellite Radio

Shows hosted by Seth Rudetsky and Christine Pedi as well as a show featuring Maureen McGovern are some of the highlights of this week's Broadway's Best 77 on Sirius Satellite Radio